ArticleThe Journal of comparative neurology2017
Examination of feline extraocular motoneuron pools as a function of muscle fiber innervation type and muscle layer.
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- Ion channel profiles of extraocular motoneurons and internuclear neurons in human abducens and trochlear nuclei.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2024Article
- Proprioceptors in extraocular muscles.Experimental physiology · 2024Review
- Investigation of Selective Innervation of Extraocular Muscle Compartments.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2023Article
- Does Surgical Resection of Horizontal Extraocular Muscles Disrupt Ocular Proprioceptors?Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Article
- Is the central mesencephalic reticular formation a purely horizontal gaze center?Brain structure & function · 2022Article
- Extraocular Motoneurons and Neurotrophism.Advances in neurobiology · 2022Article
- MIF versus SIF Motoneurons, What Are Their Respective Contribution in the Oculomotor Medial Rectus Pool?The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Cerebellar projections to the macaque midbrain tegmentum: Possible near response connections.Visual neuroscience · 2021Article
- Mouse Extraocular Muscles and the Musculotopic Organization of Their Innervation.Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) · 2019Article
- Functional diversity of motoneurons in the oculomotor system.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Transduction of Craniofacial Motoneurons Following Intramuscular Injections of Canine Adenovirus Type-2 (CAV-2) in Rhesus Macaques.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2019Article
- Identification of Functional Cell Groups in the Abducens Nucleus of Monkey and Human by Perineuronal Nets and Choline Acetyltransferase Immunolabeling.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2018Article
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Abstract
This study explores two points related to the pattern of innervation of the extraocular muscles. First, species differences exist in the location of the motoneurons supplying multiply innervated fibers (MIFs) and singly innervated fibers (SIFs) in eye muscles. MIF motoneurons are located outside the extraocular nuclei in primates, but are intermixed with SIF motoneurons within rat extraocular nuclei. To test whether this difference is related to visual capacity and frontal placement of eyes, we injected retrograde tracers into the medial rectus muscle of the cat, a highly visual nonprimate with frontally placed eyes. Distal injections labeled smaller MIF motoneurons located ventrolaterally and rostrally within the oculomotor nucleus (III). More central injections also labeled a separate population of larger cells located dorsally in III. Thus, the cat shares with the nocturnal rat the feature of having MIF motoneurons located within the bounds of III. On the other hand, just as with monkeys, cats show segregation of the MIF and SIF medial rectus motoneuron pools, albeit in a different pattern. Second, extraocular muscles are divided into two layers; the inner, global layer inserts into the sclera, and the outer, orbital layer inserts into the connective tissue pulley. To test whether these layers are supplied by anatomically discrete motoneuron pools, we injected tracer into the orbital layer of the cat lateral rectus muscle. No evidence of either morphological or distributional differences was found, suggesting that the functional differences in these layers may be due mainly to their orbital anatomy, not their innervation. J. Comp. Neurol. 525:919-935, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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